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• * Marinus (1) van der Pligt, Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, NL († 1877)
• Andries Bokkes Postma, Dantumadeel, Fr, Nederland
• Adrianus Theodorus Niesing, Soest,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1959)
• Adriana Josephina Godschalx, Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1936)
• Aaltje ter Stege († 1937)
• Albert Pieters De Jong, Drachten, Smallingerland, Nederland († 1932)
• Aafke Abes van Dijk, Marrum († 1880)
• Aleida Kappert, goor († 1921)
• Amatus Bogaert, Wingene († 1877)
• Adrianus Martinus Vervoort, Sint-Oedenrode († 1923)

• Adriaan Johanisse van Amelsvoort (89), Loon op Zand
• Auke Sytse Sytema (1), Warga
• Agatha van Kampen (0), Spierdijk
• Adriaan (Arie) BLEES (63), Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Johanisse van AMELSVOORT (89), Loon op Zand,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aris Fijnheer (81), Nwe-Niedorp
• Baukje Dirks Kunst (76), Vrouwenparochie
• Berend Jan van Lenthe (12), Dalfsen, Ov, The Netherlands
• Auke Sytema (1), Warga, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriaan Haanskorf (57), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1869 » Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor († 1954)
• 1872 » Fred Marriott, American race car driver († 1956)
• 1873 » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education († 1936)
• 1874 » Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon († 1937)
• 1877 » Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author († 1967)
• 1878 » Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. († 1966)
• 1878 » Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright († 1937)
• 1880 » Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach († 1957)
• 1880 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1881 » Max Pechstein, German painter and academic († 1955)

• 1872 » Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright (b. 1834)
• 1876 » Catherine Labouré, French nun and saint (b. 1806)
• 1877 » Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1819)
• 1888 » Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (b. 1808)
• 1889 » George Kerferd, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Victoria (b. 1831)
• 1889 » Ion Creangă, Romanian author and educator (b. 1837)
• 1890 » Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1826)
• 1891 » Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop and linguist (b. 1809)
• 1894 » Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1909 » Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Gerardus
16. Wilhelmus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Adriana
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Grietje
11. Aaltje
12. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
14. Antje
15. Petronella
16. Jacoba

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
• February 26 » Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
• March 10 » The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
• June 4 » An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
• July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
• August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
• November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.

The temperature on December 31, 1876 was about 11.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%.